Beat this for the third time since first playing it last year, and it's still a very fun game with some hilarious moments, extremely polished gameplay and maps, and some very out-of-place philosophic waxing from characters in the middle of an intense mission. There seem to be so many secrets and little things that happen in the game that I'll never find, I always pass on calling people on the codec in different situations but whenever I do they have something to say. It feels like they thought of everything and I can't believe the game fit on to two discs back in the day.

4 stars, one for each time the credits play in the ending of this game. While the story is somewhat scattered and occasionally nonsensical and pretentious, I loved the gameplay loop of Death Stranding and found it addicting to keep delivering packages and building up the world of the game. I loved the sound design and the visuals were always amazing as well, everything has an inspired design to it.

I think later in the game it starts to get more annoying to do quests, once you have enough of the world connecting it just becomes a chore to zip around or truck around, with BT's just showing up to potentially mess your shit up.

But Death Stranding was fascinating to me, with very interesting music, weird and misleading casting, and gameplay more reminiscent of American Truck Simulator than Metal Gear Solid (not a bad thing).